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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Produce \Pro*duce"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Produced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Producing}.] [L. producere, productum, to bring forward, beget, produce; pro forward, forth + ducere to lead. See {Duke}.]
1. To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
Produce your cause, saith the Lord. --Isa. xli. 21.
Your parents did not produce you much into the world. --Swift.
2. To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.
This soil produces all sorts of palm trees. --Sandys.
[They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. -- Milton.
The greatest jurist his country had produced. --Macaulay.
3. To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.
4. To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.
5. To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.
6. To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore. --Sir T. Browne.
7. (Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
produced
adjective: that is caused by; "if...such a change is produced by...insulin comas or electroshocks"; "the emotional states produced by this drug"
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